...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...ise for excluding or attempting to exclude, each other from these official stations. No possible form regulating the business of ordination, or of ind... ...t not of the spiritual functions. We had no right to the emoluments of our stations, when the law courts had decided against us, but we had a right to... ... had decided against us, but we had a right to the laborious duties of the stations.’ No gravity could refuse to smile at this complaint—verbally so m... ... whether Samson himself could have pulled up his namesake on the Liverpool railway. Recently, indeed, in the Court of Com- mon Pleas, on a motion to s... ... Bompas, in Hewitt v. Price, Tindal (Chief-Justice) said—‘We cannot call a railway a public 1 security, I think,’ (laughter:) but we think otherwise.... ...ef-Justice was still more in error, as he will soon learn. For the British Railways now yield a regular income of three millions per annum—one tenth o...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...t fact. Even Tubal’s work would probably be little approved at this day in Sheffield; and there- fore of Cain (Cain senior, I mean,) it is no disparag... ...t wails made the whole series of battles and endless skirmishes take their stations as parts in one drama. The graves that had closed sixty years ago,... ...te the ve- locity. On this system the word was—Non magna loquimur, as upon railways, but magna vivimus. The vital experience of the glad animal sensib... ... centre, and acknowledged only one interest. But the crowds attending at a railway station have as little unity as running water, and own as many cent... ...to nine o’clock. 3 The T urks and other people, who have succeeded to the stations and the hab- its of the ancients, do so at this day. The Roman, th...

...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar a...

...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE....................................................................

...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ....................................... .......................... 58 SPEECH: SHEFFIELD, DECEMBER 22, 1855. ................................................ ...of a large class of those who, in Charles Dickens 24 their various useful stations, assist in the production of our wealth, and in rendering her name... ...ed himself most mourn fully as to the ruinous effects and rapid spread of railways, and was most pathetic upon the virtues of the slow going old stag... ...e station disappear when the train starts, and about that grope to the new Railway Hotel, which will be an excellent house when the customers come, bu... ...o have been doing nothing during the last week but rushing into and out of railway carriages, and making eloquent speeches at all sorts of public dinn... ...promotes digestion. The news man is to be met with on steamboats, railway stations, and at every turn. His profits are small, he has a great amount o...

... 27, 1855. ............................................................................................................................... 58 SPEECH: SHEFFIELD, DECEMBER 22, 1855. .................................................................................................... 66 SPEECH: LONDON, FEBRUARY 9, 1858. ............................................................

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...now the ropes … . All you have to do is keep away from the Olympia and the railway stations, walk fast and keep your shoes shined … and you’ve got wit... ...ropes … . All you have to do is keep away from the Olympia and the railway stations, walk fast and keep your shoes shined … and you’ve got wits, haven... ... of ciga- rettes and in the midst of them a little opening, like that of a railway ticket office, in the wall through which the “Y” man sold his commo... ...he occa- sional little red-green lights that darted by and the glow of the stations that flared for a moment and were lost in dark silhouettes of unli... ... thinking how all the epochs in his life seemed to have been marked out by railway rides at night. The jolt- ing rumble of the wheels made the blood g... ...y and blotted out the view. The train slowed down and went through several stations crowded with people on their way to work,—ordinary people in varie...